The cold war era is mainly important for the nuclear war that never happened. Neil Sheehan succesfully dramatizes this nonevent through the story of Gen. Bernard Schriever, a crucial figure behind the creation of America’s ICBM force.

An obituary on Sept. 11 and in some copies on Sept. 10 about the nuclear physicist Edward Teller referred incorrectly to the government of Adm. Nicholas Horthy, who ruled Dr. Teller's native Hungary from 1920 to 1944. Although there has been debate...

October 6, 2003, Monday

To the Editor: As a colleague of his at the Hoover Institution, I had the privilege to know Edward Teller for the past decade. Your Sept. 14 editorial ''Teller's World'' suggested that without him, today's world ''might not be much different.''